KOSHER RESTAURANT WAR IN MONTREAL
The firebombings of kosher restaurants in Montreal are apparently not sparked by antisemitism. Rather, it seems, a kosher restaurant war is underway. Read more here.
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NAZI COMMANDER LIVING IN MINNESOTA
You’d think they’d have all died out by now. But the Associated Press says it has discovered a top SS Nazi commander who, the AP says, lied on his immigration papers to get in the United States and who has been living in Minnesota. Now 91, Michael Karkoc is accused of burning villages filled with women [...]
PARIS MUSEUM DEPICTS PALESTINIAN SUICIDE BOMBERS AS MARTYRS
A Paris museum has drawn outrage from France’s Jewish community over a display depicting photos of Palestinian suicide bombers as martyrs. The exhibit entitled “Death” by Palestinian photographer Ahlam Shibli at the taxpayer-subsidized Jeu De Paume Museum is described on the museum’s website as showing “how Palestinian society preserves the presence of the ‘martyrs.’” According [...]
LAUTENBERG’S JEWISH LEGACY
By DEBRA RUBIN JNS.org Someone searching for the legacy of Frank Lautenberg, the longtime Democratic U.S. senator from New Jersey, might simply look to Baruch College in New York. Of the 1,900 Jewish students there, 60 percent are from the former Soviet Union, 15 percent are Persian and 10 percent are Syrian. Or one might [...]
HUGE CROWDS CELEBRATE ISRAEL IN NEW YORK CITY
The annual Celebrate Israel Parade has stepped off on Fifth Avenue. As 1010 WINS’ Glenn Schuck reported, thousands of children will be among the 35,000 marchers taking part in the Celebrate Israel Parade. In addition, 17 bands and 30 floats are marching up Fifth Avenue for the annual parade. Read more here.
IRS MAY HAVE TARGETED PRO-ISRAEL GROUP
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com It’s not just Tea Party groups that may have been targeted by the IRS. The president of a pro-Israeli group says they were told by the IRS that they were being targeted because of their views. Z-Street President Lori Lowenthal says her organization doesn’t support President Obama’s two-state solution [...]
HOUSE MULLS ADDITIONAL IRAN SANCTIONS
The House Foreign Affairs Committee has adopted a new package of sanctions against Iran to further discourage the Islamic Republic from using its nuclear research to build nuclear weapons. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee praised the the Nuclear Iran Prevention Act (H.R. 850) and urged the House to pass the measure. Read more here.
MERKEL HONORED FOR SUPPORTING JEWISH COMMUNITY
The Conference of European Rabbis has honored German Chancellor Angela Merkel with the Lord Jakobovits Prize for European Jewry at the Great Synagogue of Europe in Brussels for her public denunciation of European antisemitism and her support of the German Jewish community. Read more here.
ISRAELI ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXHIBIT AT THE LOUVRE
By ARYEH SAVIR Tazpit News Agency For the first time in history, thousands of tourists from all over the world are able to view an Israeli archaeological exhibit on display at the most visited museum in the world. Private collections owned by Israelis have been on display in the Louvre in the past, but this is the first official Israeli exhibit. The exhibit features the [...]
GLOBAL RISE IN ANTISEMITISM, PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIAN MINORITIES
The newly released International Religious Freedom Report for 2012 by the U.S. State Department study found an increase in antisemitism as well as persecution of Christians and other minorities. “Holocaust denial and glorification remained troubling themes, and opposition to Israeli policy at times was used to promote or justify blatant antisemitism,” the report says. It [...]